rehearsals

Goodbye rehearsal room … hello theatre

26 January, 2016
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Posted by Kate Foy

Yesterday we said goodbye to Rehearsal Room 1 at Queensland Theatre Company. It’s been our cosy playroom since just after Christmas when we came together to begin work on QUARTET. It’s into the Playhouse at QPAC tomorrow and the start of tech week. This means getting used to a new space; those green (Act 1) and

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Week 4 – the gears are clicking

24 January, 2016
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Posted by Kate Foy

Waking early today into the light in the sky. It’s high summer and my diurnal rhythms seem to be in sync with the bigger picture. Eyes open, into awareness, and the low-level adrenaline that’s come to be part of my life, kicks into play. I’m grateful for a day off for the light domestic duties, a spot of gardening, and

Andrea Moor, Lisa Gasteen, qtcQuartet, rehearsals

Week 3: the play’s the thing!

16 January, 2016
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Posted by Kate Foy

This post is a reflection on my own sense of the ‘job’ as actor this week. The clarity of purpose behind our weekly and daily schedules keeps us all focussed and humming forward together – kudos to our director Andrea Moor and Stage Manager Peter Sutherland. For those of us inside Rehearsal Room One, the days seem fuelled by performance adrenaline; it’s probably why I’m so

Andrea Moor, Catarina Hebbard, Peter Sutherland, rehearsals, Ronald Harwood

Routine

7 January, 2016
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Posted by Kate Foy

Rehearsal days are flying by – we’re nearing the end of Week 2 – and the work on the floor this week, blocking scenes and interrogating action through character, is intense and tiring. This is where the richness of a text becomes apparent, but it takes its toll. The tiredness only becomes apparent at day’s end when,

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Week 1 Done … no dust

3 January, 2016
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Posted by Kate Foy

The last time I turned up to work on a Saturday morning was back in high school when I did a weekly pocket-money stint at Coles in my hometown. This week has been broken a bit by public holidays, and so we finished the first of what constituted the rehearsal week on Saturday; it felt

Melissa Agnew, qtcQuartet, rehearsals, Zara Barrett

Unexpected Learning

1 January, 2016
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Posted by Kate Foy

In the course of their careers, actors get to experience a wonderfully eclectic range of characters and human behaviors. We investigate the way people think and act, and have the often-daunting task of giving life to a character who seems light years away from our own understanding and experience of life.

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Rehearsal Notebook: out of the archives

6 May, 2009
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Posted by Kate Foy

10 May 2007 For an actor, the tech dress rehearsal is a little like crossing a road in Vietnam. Stepping into fast moving traffic requires confidence, concentration and skill to get to the other side. Note session after a technical rehearsal: Mad Forest by Caryl Churchill Artsworx University of Southern Queensland.

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Playing notes: Dress 2

16 April, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

Tonight was a night of fix-ups all round for the Cabaret kinder; there are always final tweaks as the creative team finesse the show: lights, sound, cues, costume. We spent 20 mins or so pre-show reworking the blocking for a couple of exits. There were also acting notes from last night’s run. There are also

Acting Notes, Cabaret, notes, rehearsals

First Run: spot the holes and string the beads!

16 March, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

Water Court installation Queensland Art Gallery Despite the dreads a week or so back, the first run was actually a bit of a thrill. During the blocking and working phase of rehearsals so far, most of our scenes have been worked in isolation from the others. So today, it was terrific to see them all

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Week 5: How can that be!

12 March, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

There’s a definite sense of autumn in the air which means we are getting mighty close to production time! Last 4-day weekend’s rehearsal period saw our doughty director and the creative team work their way through the mind-numbing exercise known as directing a crowd scene. Perhaps not so much mind numbing as shredding. There were

Asides, Cabaret, crowd scenes, Director, rehearsals

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Goodbye rehearsal room … hello theatre

Week 4 – the gears are clicking

Week 3: the play’s the thing!

Routine

Week 1 Done … no dust

Unexpected Learning

Rehearsal Notebook: out of the archives

Playing notes: Dress 2

First Run: spot the holes and string the beads!

Week 5: How can that be!